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The “New Generation” volunteer management team which, with the Bureau & the Conseil d’administration of the association, will run the
2023 International Festival Pays de Fayence, 2- 12 August 2023:

Graham Ross, artistic director
Creative team
Aidan Coburn   (ai**********@mu**************.com)
Sophie Haynes   (so****@mu**************.com)
Ruth Harrison   (ru**@mu**************.com)
Rebecca Taylor   (re*****@mu**************.com)

Our administration team: contacting us (2020-23 information & who’s who HERE):

Musique-Cordiale is a small group of organizations with limited resources. It depends heavily not only on voluntary effort, ticket sales and subscriptions but also on limited public subsidies (covering about 13% of our costs in 2019) and generous donations that vary from time to time. So the jobs we can offer involve considerable responsibility, but it is difficult for us to provide competitive long-term employment and career opportunities. We have been fortunate to have the services of a series of short-term but capable and hard-working  (and pan-European) festival administrators and volunteers. For the moment, the festival is organized by the “old team” (but see New Generation Team 2023 information above), and by the members of the board of directors (the Bureau); please contact Pippa Pawlik or Jonathan Barker (Treasurer) for all your questions about participation in the festival choir, orchestra or team of assistants – or regarding your travel, accommodation, expenses, music, concert tickets, schedules of repetition – or just about anything else! We hope to attract new people – or recruit – to provide vital energy and drive during the festival itself each year. (We are grateful to Mona Sautier, Hannah Stodart, Barbara Hooymeyer, Marlene Rudloff, Monica Herrera-Pavia and Jess Lyness for their amazing work in recent years).

The festival is organised by and for L’Association Musique Cordiale

217 Chemin des Moulins, 83440 Seillans, France
No: W831003950, registered, FR, loi de 1901
Siret: 493 460 745 00018
TVA non-applicable, article 293 B du CGI

Conseil d’Administration (Management Committee) ** of L’Association Musique Cordiale

(Members of the Conseil to serve until the 2023 AGM due to take place during the festival in August 2023.  The committee can co-opt new members to join the committee until the next AGM and it is proposed that, in future the any EU/AELE members can be eligible to be proposed as officers).

Current Conseil, elected 2020 (3-year cycle):

Pippa Pawlik (President-Swiss/AELE)
*Jacques Leforestier (Vice-president) (EU)
Jonathan Barker (Treasurer ++)
*Alain Deïssard  (Secretary) (EU)
Aidan Coburn
Maggie Donnelly
Owen Hanmer
Ruth Harrison
Sophie Haynes
*Madou Hillenius (EU – acting treasurer++)
Sean Law
Rebecca Taylor
*Ariane Todes (EU)

Non-voting invited attendees, ex officio:
Serge Liebovitz, Commune de Seillans & Commission pour Culture, Communauté des Communes du Pays de Fayence)
Graham Ross, principal conductor

The executive committee (le Bureau) of the association consists of the 4 officers, namely the president, the vice-president, the treasurer and the secretary. 

The management is supported by many other volunteers, supporters and helpers, who work hard throughout the year with the backing of the Ville de Seillans and the Communauté des Communes de Pays de Fayence. There is also an ad-hoc group, which has managed concerts and festivals in the UK during the pandemic, 2020-2022 (Pippa Pawlik, Jonathan Barker, Rebecca Taylor, James Swainson, Owen Hanmer, Maggie Donnelly, Sophie Haynes, Ruth Harrison, Sean Law with music director Graham Ross).

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The Musique-Cordiale Trust (England)

The Trust is an English charity. It supports the association and the Festival by raising funds to support events, students and musicians and also organises Musique Cordiale concerts in the UK
registered charity number 1167732
separate website: musique-cordiale.org
please contact: in**@M-*******.uk 

Trustees:

Jonathan Barker (chairman)
Celia Bangham
David Christie
Chris Hoyle
David Lowe
Peter Phillips (treasurer)
James Swainson

The staff team that supports the festival and academy and the educational outreach programme, as well as Musique-Cordiale in Kent events, is employed by Musique-Cordiale Services Ltd. (company incorporated in England & Wales No 9570966, registered as a foreign employer in France, Siret: 837 812 577 00018), Newnham, Kent, ME9 OLL, GB.
The company manages travel, accommodation and food and administrative arrangements, including this web-site, on behalf of the association
Directors: Jonathan Barker & Philippa Pawlik

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To pay Musique Cordiale

•  for full account and payment information in GB pounds or Euros, please click HERE
• Please consider making a donation  – to the French association Musique Cordiale, any amount):
  DONATE NOW – one time, annually or monthly options

THANK YOU. We welcome donations of any amount at any time. If you are a French tax-payer, please ask for a certificat du don. If you are a UK tax-player, please click the RED ‘Donate button below and also complete a GiftAid declaration.

PLEASE SUPPORT our 2023 Essential & urgent fund-raising campaign! If you value Musique Cordlale for its unique international festival and its orchestral academy for young musical talent - or its choral & singing courses, concerts and events in France and Britain, we need your help to continue.
Even after 16 years, it cannot continue without your support especially when we have had to close our box office and cancel musical events because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The French association & The Musique-Cordiale Trust need you for this campaign. Between us, we must hit a £50,000 annual target. Do please contact us for ideas and suggestions.

OR you can simply follow this link and pay whatever you like in whatever currency by PayPal: http://paypal.me/MusiqueCordiale

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Les Offices de Tourisme du Pays de Fayence

Le site officiel de l'office de tourisme du Pays de Fayence

• OT de Bagnols-en-forêt : 04 94 40 64 68
• OT de Fayence : 04 94 76 20 08
• OT de Montauroux : 04 94 47 75 90
• OT de Seillans : 04 94 76 85 91
• Mairie de Tourrettes : 04 94 39 07 20
• OT de Callian : 04 94 47 75 77
• OT de Mons : 04 94 76 39 54
• Mairie St Paul-en-Forêt : 04 94 39 08 80
• OT de Tanneron : 04 93 60 60 71 73

Accessibility

Please contact us at in**@mu**************.com to inform us of any requirements you have and we will endeavor to accommodate your needs.

Terms & conditions

All tickets are non-refundable. However, if a performance is sold out and we have a waiting list, we will try to sell the tickets on your behalf. We can’t guarantee that we can do so. The concert programmes and artists are subject to change without notice.

Privacy

Musique Cordiale respects your confidentiality and guards your personal information. We never retain details of your bank debit or credit cards after we have received payments from our members, donors, customers or supporters. We do not sell your name, email, address or phone details. Only Musique Cordiale has access to this information to communicate with you and we share it only with our agents and then only for the purposes of contacting our supporters, customers, donors, staff or suppliers on our behalf. We are trying to be EU GDPR compliant and we retain data only for compliance purposes or to maintain our current lists of and communications with members, singers, players, supporters & Friends. We do not retain any information on visitors to our website.

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